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Date:      Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:18:53 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/krb5-beta [...] 
Message-ID:  <200202110319.g1B3JPu09732@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:56:35 CST." <20020211015635.GB65324@madman.nectar.cc> 

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In message <20020211015635.GB65324@madman.nectar.cc>, "Jacques A. 
Vidrine" writ
es:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 06:47:09PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 02:45:33PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > >   Added files:
> > >     security/krb5-beta/files README.FreeBSD patch-ac patch-ad 
> > >                              patch-ae patch-af patch-ai patch-aj 
> > >                              patch-appl::telnet::telnetd::telnetd.8 
> > >                              patch-appl::bsd::Makefile.in 
> > >                              patch-appl::bsd::klogind.M patch-as 
> > >                              patch-at patch-av 
> > >                              patch-appl::telnet::telnetd::Makefile.in 
> > >                              patch-appl::telnet::telnetd::utility.c 
> > >                              patch-ax patch-ay patch-ba patch-bb 
> > >     security/krb5-beta   Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr 
> > >                          pkg-plist 
> > >   Log:
> > >   New port, Kerberos V 1.2.4-beta1.
> > 
> > This should have been repocopied from ports/security/krb5.  
> 
> No, it should not.  I requested no repocopy for this port.
> 
> > This
> > commit causes the krb5-beta port to lose about 3 1/2 years of
> > history.
> 
> The krb5-beta port has no history [1].  This is a scratch port for
> people who want to beta test the next version of MIT Kerberos before
> it is released.  When it is released, ports/security/krb5 will be
> updated as appropriate and this port will be removed again.
> 
> By contrast, a port called `krb5-devel' would be something different
> (such as a development branch from CVS) and _would_ require a
> repocopy.  Maybe this is what you have in mind.

I do have a "krb5-devel" port in mind, based on the daily krb5-current 
snapshots.

> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
> NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
> jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se
> 
> 
> [1] In two senses:  (1) We don't really want/need the history beyond the
>     current beta cycle. (2) The port reorganization cleaned out the
>     attics, so we don't have the revisions for the previous krb5-beta
>     incarnations anyway.



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